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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (258353)	11/4/2005 9:13:23 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572508

Gus, without laying claims to know all of Belgium, I am quite familiar with Mechelen, which as you know is half the way between Antwerpen and Brussels and definitely counts to the Brussels burbs. In Mechelen, which used to be an attractive and expensive park style sleeping city with house prices constantly climbing for years, this trend seems to have been reversed. Many non immigrants moved out to other areas thus leaving a stagnant housing market and a lot of shops closing doors behind them. It is amazing how cheap you can rent what used to be a nice 4-5 rooms apartment for a medium size family, when planning for for instance an international sales office for a multi national company with the need of good communications, vicinity of a great airport (Ryanair et al) and multi language people. But on the streets you don's see all winners pushing their baby carts around though. Taro

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (258353)	11/4/2005 5:15:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572508

Well, Belgium is another proposition as far as immigration is concerned. Belgian urban planners didn't park immigrants and poor natives in derelict suburbs several miles away from big cities Belgian leaders also didn't encourage the passing of a law which prohibits the wearing of headwear in public buildings. One of the stupidest and most insensitive moves I've heard of in a long time. Chirac gained little and lost a lot.....in part, these riots are due to the passage of that law. ted